"Progress celebrates
victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin.
When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead
better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What
good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the
heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are
necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can
rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has
perpetrated on it." - Karl Kraus

Sanctions against Iraq: more than a million
children died already "Economic
sanctions may have contributed to more deaths during the
post-Cold War era than all the weapons of mass destruction
throughout history." - John & Karl Mueller in Foreign
Affairs

World economy, world anarchy, world policeman,
world government
"Shall we go on conferring our civilization upon the peoples
that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a
rest?" - Mark Twain

Against totalitarianism "The essence of totalitarian
government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to
make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery
out of men, and thus to dehumanize them." - Hannah Arendt

Achieving goodness in a complex world "Each time a man stands up for an
ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers of energy
and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert
Kennedy